I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see all the latest additions to the site.
General
- Victoria47 was christened in the HMS Tamar Bell in Hong Kong, and asks if anyone knows where the bell has ended up?
- The 1934 Jurors List is now online - thank you to everyone who helped type it up. (I'm now looking for volunteers who can spare half an hour to type up a page of the 1935 list.) Look at the number of people on the Jurors Lists around these years, there's a dip in 1932 then an unusually large jump in 1934. I wonder what changed in those years?
- 1930 - 1,861
- 1931 - 1,948
- 1932 - 1,635
- 1933 - 1,752
- 1934 - 2,599
- pepepeterleo asks if anyone has information about a Scouts Jamboree/Rally he attended at Wah Yan College (Kowloon) in 1957/58
- The Hongkong Pictorial Postcard Co. [????-c.1905] was one of the early postcard publishers in Hong Kong
Places
- Kowloon
- I'm trying to find the location of the 7-storey resettlement block shown in the photo below (see the discussion in the photo's comments). If you know someone who lived in a resettlement estate, please could you ask if they recognise the name of the rooftop school or the ground-level shop, both of which are shown enlarged below.
- Blackhead's Hill/Signal Hill Lighthouse [1909- ]
- RAF Facilities Cameron Road (Cameron Road "Camp") [c.1920-c.1929]
- St. Joseph's College Branch School 聖若瑟書院分校 [1917-1930]
- This photo's location has been confirmed as Middle Road:
1947 - Oct 5 christening walking to Chatham Rd.jpg, by Nona - Can anyone identify this beach?
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- I'm trying to find the location of the 7-storey resettlement block shown in the photo below (see the discussion in the photo's comments). If you know someone who lived in a resettlement estate, please could you ask if they recognise the name of the rooftop school or the ground-level shop, both of which are shown enlarged below.
- New Territories
- Cap Badge Hill, overlooking San Wai Camp [????- ]
- How did Dill's Corner get its name?
- Japanese Tunnels, Devil's Peak, Below the Gun Batteries. [????- ] - Iloveoldhk tells us what's inside
- Lau Fau Shan police station [1962- ]
- Pillbox 205, To Shek [1937- ]
- Finding the remains of the Sha Tau Kok branch railway
- New discoveries at the Shing Mun Redoubt
- Harbour and islands
- European House #20, Cheung Chau [????-????]
Book news
Monday's talk with May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn about the recently published book, Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong is fully booked. If you were able to get a ticket, I look forward to seeing you at Tai Kwun on Monday.
Gwulo's new book, Volume 4, is making good progress. Since the last update Lilly, the book's designer, has taken my draft and started work on the final layout, with the first several chapters already complete. I always enjoy this time, as it is when I get the first glimpse of how the finished book will look. The layout will be finished by the end of the month, then it heads off to the printer.
Here are some details cropped from the new book's photos:
Taking a step back to Volume 3, thank you to the Amazon reader who left this positive review:
Excellent photo history books of Hong Kong - Yet another superb volume in the series. If you have any interest in the history of such a fascinating country as Hong Kong, then these books are for you. The photographs are fantastic, as is the journey / guided tour that Mr Bellis takes you on in his narrative investigation into them. I can’t wait for volume 4.
People
- POWs
- Joe DENTON [????-????]
- Thomas Henry STEED [1918-1942] - POW, died on the Lisbon Maru. Looking for any more information about him.
- Henry Jemson TEBBUTT [1893-????]
- Stanley Camp internees:
- Merrill Steele ADY [1895-1982] and his wife Lucile ADY [1895-c.1990]
- Beryl GOLDENBERG [c.1925-????]
- John Ferguson MCGOWAN (aka Jack) [1899-1948]
- Walter Philip THOMPSON (aka Tommy) [1909-1978], a policeman who successfully escaped from Stanley Camp together with Gwen PRIESTWOOD / NELSON (née FULLBROOK) [1917-2000]
- Other:
- Peter ABESSER [c.1895-1979]
- There's a new online exhibition about the famous writer, Eileen Chang: "Eileen Chang at the University of Hong Kong"
- Olga MIHALEFF [????-????] and her husband Michael MIHALEFF [1907-1949]
- Francis "Frank" William QUARK [c.1888-1942]
Photos
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